BY NICOLA BULLARD
The International Monetary Fund's new managing director's intention to "drive change from within the institution rather than have it imposed from outside" does not inspire confidence, given the fund's dismal record of reform so
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No matter where you go within the four walls of Australia, the games will be upon you. The nation is saturated. "I still call Australia home" has moved in for the duration, occupying musical fragments inside the head of every mother's
BY SIMON BUTLER
The opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games portrayed a shorthand version of Australian history that international visitors and news services would find easy to digest, even if a little bizarre. Aboriginal performers gave way
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Refugees on trial for their involvement in August protests at the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre have been remanded in custody for a further month, following a court hearing here on September 22.
After being
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Fifty people gathered at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on September 20 to assess the movement for indigenous rights in the wake of the small and divided protests coinciding with the opening of the Olympics on September
A Cuban photographer whose picture of Che Guevara became the world's most famous revolutionary image won substantial damages on September 14, after the portrait was used in a British advertisement for vodka.
Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, 72, went to the
The raids on two houses by the Australian Federal Police, searching for information on who leaked secret files on East Timor, have shown yet again the real basis of Australian foreign policy: lying to the Australian people and to the world.
The
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — "What really happened at S11" was the theme of a September 19 Green Left Weekly public forum and multimedia extravaganza put together by Resistance and Democratic Socialist Party activists returned from the Melbourne
BY NOAM CHOMSKY
There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system.
In
BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE — Workers at Balfours Bakery have rejected an invitation to have their wages cut by management, in a vote on September 19.
Management had asked staff to accept a pay cut of 76 cents an hour and other measures, including
The following is the text of a model motion for trade unions and community groups to condemn police violence at S11.
This (union/meeting/executive) condemns the September 11-13 assaults by the Victoria Police on non-violent blockaders at Crown
MANILA — In a full-scale military assault reminiscent of the worst days of martial law under former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines government on September 16 launched an attack on the southern islands centred on Jolo, allegedly to crush
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